Southern Africa
Latin America and Caribbean (2)
Philippines
Bolivia (2)
Germany (2)
Patagonia-Comahue in Argentina
US
Canada
Japan (Japan!)
Brazil
Dominica
Paraguay
New Zealand
Asia
Argentina
Portugal
Mexico
Australia
These are the countries whose episcopal conferences Francis cites in #LaudatoSi. And this is news, at least among Catholics, as it shows a new level of collegiality.
This saves me a blog post. I checked a couple of the old encyclicals I read in graduate school, because I could have sworn there was an occasional reference to the USCCB or a European Bishops conference, but I couldn’t find one in either Centesimus Annus or Laborem Excercens.
Note our own Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg is quoted in this CNS story.
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